Politics

No way to retreat from EVMs: CEC

Shawdesh Desk: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Monday said there is no scope to backtrack from the decision of using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the elections

Complaining is a habit of BNP: Tofail Ahmed

Shawdesh DEsk: Awami League Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed on Monday said BNP has a habit of complaining after losing elections. “They’re already saying that they won’t be able to

Jahangir Kabir Nanak hospitalised

Shawdesh Desk: Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak was admitted to Labaid hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi on Monday morning after suffering a heart attack. Biplob, personal secretary of

Arrest warrant issued against former Chief Justice SK Sinha, 10 others

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday issued arrest warrants against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others persons in a case filed under Money Laundering Act by

Prime Minister Hasina to inaugurate Bangabandhu’s birth centenary countdown on Jan 10

Shawdesh Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the countdown to the observance of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary at the Tejgaon Old

Family members to meet Khaleda Zia this afternoon

Shawdesh Desk: Family members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit her at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city on Sunday afternoon. BNP chairperson’s media wing member

BNP policymakers to sit in emergency meeting this afternoon

Shawdesh desk: Members of the BNP standing committee, the highest policymaking body of the party, will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon to discuss the country’s latest political situation

Rein in ‘BCL cadres’: Fakhrul to govt

Shawdesh Desk: Condemning the attack on the Patuakhali residence of party vice-chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury reportedly by Chhatra League activists, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday urged